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THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO<br/>
<span class=large>ST JOHN</span>
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CHAPTER 15
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Jesus is the vine; his disciples are the branches—He discourses on perfect law of love—His servants have been chosen and ordained by him—World hates and fights true religion—Promise of the Comforter, the Spirit of truth.
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I am</span> the true <sup>a</sup><a href="john/15/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 49: 11; 1 Ne. 15: 15.">vine</a>, and my Father is the husbandman.
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Every <sup>a</sup><a href="john/15/2a" mark="a" type="A" title="Matt. 15: 13 (13-14).">branch</a> in me that beareth not <sup>b</sup><a href="john/15/2b" mark="b" type="A" title="Matt. 7: 19 (15-20); Luke 3: 9.">fruit</a> he taketh away: and every <i>branch</i> that beareth fruit, he <sup>c</sup><a href="john/15/2c" mark="c" type="R" title="GR purifies; TG Test, Try, Prove.">purgeth</a> it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
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Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.
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<sup>a</sup><a href="john/15/4a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Jn. 2: 6; D&C 35: 18; D&C 43: 3; D&C 50: 24.">Abide</a> in me, and I in you.  As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.
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I am the <sup>a</sup><a href="john/15/5a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Vineyard of the Lord.">vine</a>, ye <i>are</i> the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without <sup>b</sup><a href="john/15/5b" mark="b" type="A" title="Philip. 4: 13.">me</a> ye can do nothing.
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If a man <sup>a</sup><a href="john/15/6a" mark="a" type="A" title="Col. 1: 23.">abide</a> not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast <i>them</i> into the fire, and they are burned.
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If ye <sup>a</sup><a href="john/15/7a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Problem-Solving.">abide</a> in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall <sup>b</sup><a href="john/15/7b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Prayer.">ask</a> what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
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Herein is my Father <sup>a</sup><a href="john/15/8a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 49: 3; Matt. 5: 16.">glorified</a>, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.
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As the Father hath <sup>a</sup><a href="john/15/9a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG God, Love of.">loved</a> me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.
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If ye <sup>a</sup><a href="john/15/10a" mark="a" type="C" title="1 Ne. 17: 35; Mosiah 2: 4; D&C 95: 12; TG Obedience.">keep</a> my commandments, ye shall abide in my <sup>b</sup><a href="john/15/10b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Love.">love</a>; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love.
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These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and <i>that</i> your <sup>a</sup><a href="john/15/11a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Joy.">joy</a> might be full.
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This is my commandment, That ye <sup>a</sup><a href="john/15/12a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Love.">love</a> one another, as I have <sup>b</sup><a href="john/15/12b" mark="b" type="A" title="D&C 6: 20.">loved</a> you.
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Greater <sup>a</sup><a href="john/15/13a" mark="a" type="C" title="1 Jn. 3: 16 (10-18); TG Love.">love</a> hath no man than this, that a man lay down his <sup>b</sup><a href="john/15/13b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Life, Sanctity of; TG Martyrdom.">life</a> for his <sup>c</sup><a href="john/15/13c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Brotherhood and Sisterhood; TG Friendship.">friends</a>.
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Ye are my <sup>a</sup><a href="john/15/14a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 84: 63.">friends</a>, if ye do whatsoever I <sup>b</sup><a href="john/15/14b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Commandments of God.">command</a> you.
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Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you <sup>a</sup><a href="john/15/15a" mark="a" type="A" title="Luke 12: 4.">friends</a>; for all things that I have <sup>b</sup><a href="john/15/15b" mark="b" type="A" title="John 16: 12; 3 Ne. 15: 16 (13-18).">heard</a> of my Father I have made <sup>c</sup><a href="john/15/15c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Revelation.">known</a> unto you.
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Ye have not chosen me, but I have <sup>a</sup><a href="john/15/16a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Apostles; TG Called of God; TG Election; TG Priesthood, Qualifying for.">chosen</a> you, and <sup>b</sup><a href="john/15/16b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Authority; TG Church Organization; TG Priesthood, Authority; TG Priesthood, History of; TG Priesthood, Melchizedek.">ordained</a> you, that ye should go and bring forth <sup>c</sup><a href="john/15/16c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Mission of Early Saints; TG Missionary Work.">fruit</a>, and <i>that</i> your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my <sup>d</sup><a href="john/15/16d" mark="d" type="A" title="D&C 18: 18.">name</a>, he may give it you.
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These things I command you, that ye love one another.
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If the world <sup>a</sup><a href="john/15/18a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Hate.">hate</a> you, ye know that it hated me before <i>it hated</i> you.
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If ye were of the <sup>a</sup><a href="john/15/19a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG World; TG Worldliness.">world</a>, the world would <sup>b</sup><a href="john/15/19b" mark="b" type="A" title="Luke 6: 26.">love</a> his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
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Remember the word that I said unto you, The <sup>a</sup><a href="john/15/20a" mark="a" type="A" title="Matt. 10: 24 (24-25).">servant</a> is not greater than his lord.  If they have <sup>b</sup><a href="john/15/20b" mark="b" type="C" title="D&C 6: 29; TG Persecution.">persecuted</a> me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.
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But all these things will they do unto you for my name’s sake, because they know not him that sent me.
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If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had <sup>a</sup><a href="john/15/22a" mark="a" type="A" title="John 9: 41 (39-41); 2 Ne. 9: 25 (25-27); D&C 82: 3 (3-4).">sin</a>: but now they have no <sup>b</sup><a href="john/15/22b" mark="b" type="D" title="IE pretext, excuse.">cloke</a> for their sin.
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He that hateth me hateth my Father also.
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If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had <sup>a</sup><a href="john/15/24a" mark="a" type="A" title="Alma 32: 19 (17-19).">sin</a>: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
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But <i>this cometh to pass,</i> that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They <sup>a</sup><a href="john/15/25a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Hate.">hated</a> me without a cause.
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But when the <sup>a</sup><a href="john/15/26a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Comfort; TG Holy Ghost, Comforter.">Comforter</a> is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, <i>even</i> the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall <sup>b</sup><a href="john/15/26b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Holy Ghost, Mission of; TG Holy Ghost, Source of Testimony.">testify</a> of me:
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And ye also shall bear <sup>a</sup><a href="john/15/27a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Witnesses.">witness</a>, because ye have been with me from the beginning.
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